TUGS – The Unicorn Golf Society

The Unicorn Golf Society (TUGS) The Unicorn has its own golf society (TUGS), drawn from an eclectic bunch of regular and occasional Patrons. You are warmly invited to join TUGS and please don’t worry, any standard of golfing prowess is welcome – there is no fee to join. Just as we receive great local support at The Unicorn, we like to support local courses, so all 4 meetings each year, are at local clubs.

The format is always individual stableford (full handicap, max 24 for men and 36 for ladies) and Members will compete for the TUGS trophy at each meeting. There will be a special prize for the person who has accumulated the highest aggregate of stableford points (best 3 rounds out of 4) which will be awarded after the final meeting of the year.

TUGS 2018

It was a beautiful day for our final meeting of 2018 at Three Locks Golf Club on 18th October.

With everything to play for, this being the final meeting of the year, who could stop Gary Brazier, leading by 7 points going into the day?

A fine turnout of 18 players saw a good competition, with half going off the first and half the seventh. this meant no one really knew what was going on until the very end. The leaders were engineered to go out together, but sadly at the last minute Roger Dimmock had to withdraw. That left realistically just Lol Hinds and Gary battling it out for the title unless Chris George could repeat his 40+ score from AVGC!

Gary put down an early marker with a birdie at the third, ultimately winning the nearest the pin in 2 and from then on never really looked back coming in with a 3 under handicap 39 points. He was just pipped for the meeting though by Nigel Eatwell, also on 39 points, winning on countback. Nigel’s team of Martin Cheshire, Matt Driver and Peter Brand, just pipped Gary, Steve George and Lol Hinds by the slimmest of mathematical margins to take the team prize.

Jean Barnett won Longest Drive and the Nearest the Pin prize to round off a splendid day.

So back to The Unicorn for pies and prize giving where Gary Brazier became the first golfer to successfully retain the TUGS trophy. Well done Gary. Retirement is obviously going well! His reward is to be cut by two – so down to 17 for the whole of next year!

If you would like to suggest any venues for next year’s contest, or know anyone who would like to take part, please forward them any details and get them to contact us at theunicornpub@icloud.com

The final individual standings 2018 after all four events are as follows:

Please drop us an email if you would like to join in.

The final TUGS meeting of the 2017 season was held at Three Locks GC

And so we came to the final meeting of 2017 with realistically only 3 people who could catch Gary Brazier for the 2017 TUGS Champion Golfer title. To topple Gary, one of Pete Lucas, Roger Dimmock or Steve George had to shoot a seriously good score. With overnight rain and damp conditions, the 3-Locks course was playing long and it just didn’t happen. In fact it didn’t happen for any of the 22 members who turned out and enjoyed this challenging course. The winner on the day (on countback from Jean Barnett) was Steve George with just 30 pts. Steve remarked that he had never before won a competition with a score which would lead to his handicap going up!

But overall, its hats off to Gary Brazier who put together the 3 best rounds of 2017 and deservedly wins the TUGS Champion Golfer title for 2017….. and who will be cut to 20 for 2018!

Special mentions to the 3 Matt’s for winning nearest the pin, nearest the pin in 2 and longest drive and to Matt Ramm, Alan Marks and Gus Orchard who won the keenly contested Team prize. Also to the 7 new members who joined us at 3-Locks….we look forward to seeing them and all our regulars next year.